How to Use academia in a Sentence

academia

noun
  • She found the business world very different from academia.
  • In the months before the coup, his target had been the world of academia.
    — New York Times, 1 Feb. 2021
  • In the world of academia, the college degree is used first.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 12 June 2021
  • Some of the top leaders in academia are ringing the alarm bells.
    — Ars Staff, ArsTechnica, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The answer, of course, isn’t yes or no, as with most things in academia.
    — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This so often seems to be the way now on the left—in academia, in media.
    — William Deresiewicz, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The two-plus decades drought has rippled through academia.
    — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The world of commerce and academia truly would have ground to a halt.
    — Gopi Sirineni, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • But many in academia worried that protests would strike up again in the fall.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • Mainstream academia turned its back, and the hype about cold fusion passed.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Dark academia decor can be brought to life with simple decor swaps.
    — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Nov. 2024
  • His dad has this legendary status in the world of academia, which sounds like, who cares?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Some find jobs in academia, think tanks, or the nonprofit world.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Steve Bowden has worked most of his career in academia.
    — Jim Henry, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2021
  • All that time in academia may have been fodder for his latest book.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 2 July 2021
  • In academia he was regarded as a moral figure, a man to be heard, not shunned.
    — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The message seems to be: Thanks for everything; academia can take it from here.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Hundreds of thousands of Russians—often the best and the brightest in tech, academia, and the arts—have left the country.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The nasty mail rolled in, from many corners of academia, Dr. Lilienfeld told colleagues.
    — Benedict Carey, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Plus, Montclair State doesn’t want to put a blanket ban on AI, which will have some place in academia.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Apr. 2024
  • Her ascent through academia has been swift and notable.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • And Jay stepped away from academia to helm Gracie’s Corner full time.
    — Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The press and academia, which should be bastions of free speech, are leading the way in closing the American mind.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The insider also sees a problem in the advanced study of crime for academia's sake.
    — Fox News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • So much of Dylan scholarship is from academia, and that’s fine.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Much of the play lightly mocks academia, and how writers present themselves and see themselves.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • The theme of this year’s event is a foreboding term from academia: polycrisis.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Books are the epitome of dark academia, and their uses don’t just stop at reading.
    — Abby Wilson, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2023
  • For some, the reasons to remain in academia are ethical.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 25 June 2025
  • This, in turn, is because the prevailing ethos in academia reduces the complexities of politics to a crude dichotomy in which everyone who is white is an oppressor of everyone who is not.
    — Jay Bergman, Boston Herald, 21 June 2025

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